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Many teams are approaching agentic AI with a mixture of interest and unease. Senior leaders see clear potential for efficiency and scale. Builders see an opportunity to remove friction from repetitive ...

Rising GDP continues to mean more carbon emissions and wider damage to the planet. Can the two be decoupled?

In 1930, a young physicist named Carl D. Anderson was tasked by his mentor with measuring the energies of cosmic ...

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Crowdsourced bug bounties and pen-testing firms see AI agents stealing low-hanging vulns from their human counterparts, but oversight remains key.

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Something extraordinary has happened, even if we haven’t fully realized it yet: algorithms are now capable of solving ...

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For the last few years, the narrative around Generative AI in science has largely focused on administrative efficiency – ...